The Viet Nam Compact

Xin Chao – Welcome to Ho Chi Minh City.

Meals included: None.

Ho Chi Minh City (former Saigon) is the most dynamic and modern city in Viet Nam. Saigon is the name of a fantastic river flowing thought the city.

During 1960s and early 1970s, Saigon was the Pearl of the Orient, which flourished under the American occupation. In more recent times, it was the seat of South Viet Nam government until the events that led to the country’s reunification. Today, the old mixes seamlessly with the new and you can wander through timeless alleys to incense-infused temples before catching up with the present in designer malls beneath sleek skyscrapers.

Upon arrival at Tan Son Nhat airport, our guide will be picked up and transferred to your hotel in the city centre.

After checking-in, you will have time to relax until noon. Our guide will be happy to show the most beautiful places in the city 

The Reunification Palace (the former Presidential Palace)

The Notre Dame Cathedral with its neoclassical architecture

The Central Post Office designed by Gustave Eiffel

The Opera House and the City Hall

Overnight in Saigon.

Meals included: Breakfast

After breakfast, our guide and driver will take you out of HCM City onto some green country roads to My Tho Town in the Mekong Delta, known as the “rice bowl” of Viet Nam. This region produces most of Vietnam’s fruit, rice, and coconuts …

It will take 2 hours to get to My Tho Town.

Firstly, you’ll visit Vinh Trang Pagoda which is decorated with mosaics made of broken pottery.

Next, you’ll take a boat ride along the Mekong River to view fishing villages. You will stop in Thoi Son islands where you can enjoy seasonal fruit, honey tea and delicious coconut candies and ‘Southern Vietnamese – Cai Luong folk music” performed by locals.

After visiting by boat trip, you will come back the pier, and transfer to Mekong Restaurant to having a lunch with local dishes in a beautiful garden

Overnight in SaiGon.

Meals included : Breakfast

You will visit the Cu Chi Tunnels. Discover these amazing systems developed by the local people and guerrillas fighting in the Vietnam War. Learn about the innovative ways the guerrillas survived and fought back in the war. The impressive underground system they built remains to tell the story of the Vietnam War.

After finish your trip in Cu Chi Tunnels, you will go directly to Tan Son Nhat airport for flight to Da Nang and transfer to your hotel in Hoi An.

Overnight in Hoi An.

Meals included: Breakfast

Leisure in the morning

Hoi An – known to early Western merchants, Hoi An was one of the major trading centres of Southeast Asia in the 16th century. Hoi An has a mixed Chinese-Vietnamese atmosphere with low, tile-roof houses and narrow streets. Having been through many ups and downs in the past, the original structures, however, are still virtually intact. That was the reason to persuade the UNESCO to recognize Hoi An as a World Heritage in 1999.

 In the afternoon, you will transfer to visit Cam Thanh Water coconut village, have a brief introduce to the history there. Take on the basket boat along the water coconut river. Fishermen will teach you how to catch the crabs (02 paxs/ boat). Disembark on the boat and back to the Hoian Town

Then, discovery Hoi An Ancient town, you will start the day visiting the Museum of Trade Ceramics. Then you’ll briefly visit the Chua Ong Pagoda,a temple from the 17th century which features China’s influence in the region. And you’ll take a stroll through, the old Tam Ky ancestral house to see it’s imperial styles meshed with French overtures. You’ll then approach the Japanese Covered Bridge. That bridge has connected the Chinese and Japanese sides of town over the waterway for centuries. The old wooden structure has shown amazing light up the town.

Enjoy your time with the boat ride on Hoai River and release the flower lanterns to pray for the best luck to you and your family. You will immerse yourself in the fanciful space of Lantern Street. Free your time with the night market and enjoy the shimmering space of Hoi An.

Overnight in Hoi An.

Meals included: Breakfast

Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, is a charming and richly historic city of lakes, shaded boulevards and leafy open parks. The centre is an architectural museum piece housing groups of ochre colonial buildings the air of provincial French towns of the 1930s. Its Old Quarter, where artisans and guilds lived and worked together to produce and sell a wide variety of items reflects the Vietnamese life in the past.

 Check out and transfer to the airport for a flight to Hanoi.

Arrival at Noi Bai airport, you will be picked up and transferred to your hotel in the city centre of Hanoi. 

PM: Visit the city with Hoan Kiem Lake & Ngoc Son Temple, experience Hanoi Old Quarter for 1 hour cyclo tour Or Electricity car. You’ll pass by the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum before visiting the highlight of this day – The temple of Literature. This ancient university was erected almost a millennium ago and has hosted many of the most prominent scholars throughout Vietnamese history. The site features many gardens, pools, buildings and ancient trees where Vietnam’s best and brightest studied under the guidance of Confucius teachings.

In the evening, enjoy a show of Water Puppetry. You will stay overnight in Hanoi.

Meals included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner                                       

08:00 Transfer to Ha Long Bay about 3 hours, your cruise across Ha Long Bay starts around noon to join in activities as kayaking, swimming, sunbathing on the sun deck. Overnight on board.

Meal included: Breakfast                                                       

Excising Tai chi Lesson with complimentary tea & coffee served in the restaurant. Exploring Fishing Village where you know directly the daily life of the fisher communities by bamboo boat (one hour). Disembark in Ha long city around noon.

Transfering  back to Noi Bai airport for departure home. Ends of highlights of Vietnam at glance -07 –days tour.